Video Editing Update

I finally learned how to use non-linear video editing software... I had tried to figure it out last January but after a couple of hours of not understanding how to isolate sections of a large file, I gave up. In early March, defeated, I bought a book on Amazon called Classroom in a Book: Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. I had flipped through it at a bookstore and it looked broken down and thorough, like the material I received back in the late 90s when I was a programmer and took a bunch of week-long Or